manufacturing

While watching The Daily Ticker yesterday, which featured the author of “The Next American Economy,” William J Holstein, the cover of his book flashed for a moment. Sure it’s nice, clean and modern — and a little spare and safe, to be completely honest — but if you look closely there’s a nice little twist [...]

Read more Cool design: The Next American Economy book cover

by Pedro Hernandez on June 10, 2011 · 0 comments

Where do your gadgets really come from? The folks behind Sourcemap, a crowdsourced, open source project, hope to answer that question by cataloging where the components that make up our devices originate. It’s an effort to provide a measure of supply chain transparency, according to project founder Leo Bonanni (see his Greener Gadgets 2010 talk [...]

Read more Sourcemap: Rattle (and tattle on) those supply chains

by Pedro Hernandez on May 24, 2011 · 0 comments

The United States is becoming a hot bed of solar manufacturing activity, no pun intended. And it’s not only the American companies that are enjoying the perks of being a cleantech and renewable energy concern. Companies based in other countries…

Read more Cleantech: Solar Manufacturing Shining in the U.S.

by Pedro Hernandez on May 12, 2009 · 1 comment

It’s no secret that U.S. manufacturing isn’t what it used to be. And while it may never return to its heyday, state governments are doing their part to spark a revival by way of tax incentives for plants that produce…

Read more Cleantech May be a Boon to U.S. Manufacturing

by Pedro Hernandez on May 6, 2009 · 0 comments